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We thank Dr Wise and colleagues1 for their thoughtful response to our work in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients with decompensated hypercapnic respiratory failure.2 We believe that modest hyperglycaemia is a useful way of identifying patients at greatest risk of treatment failure with non-invasive ventilation, but we are more cautious than those …